My Bn's wont eat anything other than algae wafers and spirulina flakes.

Hi,I have tried my Bn's on almost everything i can think of but they will not touch anything.I have tried peas,cucumber,potato,sweet potato,butternut squash,romain lettuce,carrot,quite a few different wafers and other things.I have tried them fresh and blanched but nope they just avoid them !! I have spent a lot of money on different wafers and flakes etc but wasted my money so now i stick to hikari wafers and tetra pro veg spirulina flakes.As that is all i can get them to eat.

so if you put cucumber in the tank overnight they wont touch it? sounds rather odd :|

Maybe rubbing a bit of garlic onto the veggies you are trying to get them to eat (I know it sounds strange but I use it to get new fish to take veggies and they usually go nuts for it)

As Aussie guy has said rubbing with garlic will often stimulate them to try a new food. Or you could try wedging one of the Hikari wafers into a piece of veg, having to cross the veg to get the wafer sometimes encourages them to try it.

kfenk wrote:

so if you put cucumber in the tank overnight they wont touch it? sounds rather odd :|

No all that happens is the cucumber goes to mush and makes a right mess of the water.I left some in for 2 days and nights once.


I will try the garlic and wafer idea thankyou.

As was mentioned by Moo I think it was, smear it on and wait for about ten mins then add the veggies to the tank I hope you have some luck with it

How many times are you trying the same vegetable? Sometimes they don't realize a certain food is really food until they see it a few times. I personally would choose a food, say zucchini and put a slice in each day and remove it the next. Do this for a week. They will become familiar with it and start eating it.
I think we confuse them sometimes by trying too many new foods in a short period of time
carol

Thanks Aussie guy and thanks Carol i will give that a go too

Sylv

Try either of these with what ever food your trying and you'll have no problems what so ever
http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Entice.html
http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/GarlicGuard.html

Thankyou for those links I will look into them

Sylv